Re/reading the Past: Critical and Functional Perspectives on Time and Value

Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC page......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Aims and scope......Page 8
SFL perspectives......Page 10
CDA perspectives......Page 11
Discourses on/about history......Page 14
History as discourse......Page 16
Preview......Page 17
References......Page 19
Part I. Constructing time and value......Page 24
Whose history?......Page 26
Marking time......Page 30
Abstraction......Page 35
Cause......Page 38
Value......Page 42
Arguing......Page 47
Mapping histories......Page 52
Deconstructing history......Page 53
More to history......Page 60
Notes......Page 61
References......Page 62
Part II. Recent past......Page 66
Introduction......Page 68
The issues reports, genre structure and patterns of evaluation......Page 70
Event stories and patterns of evaluation......Page 77
The rhetorical functionality of the standard news report......Page 85
Conclusion: News as narrative or gossip......Page 91
Notes......Page 94
References......Page 95
Introduction......Page 98
Language as a medium in reporting news......Page 99
Contextual information......Page 100
The functions of news reports......Page 101
The functions of news reports generally......Page 103
The functions of censorship......Page 104
The functions of news reports which defy censorship......Page 106
Linguistic theory in analysis of news reports......Page 107
Visibly crossing out potentially offensive words and phrases (see Figure 2)......Page 110
Direct reference to the restrictions; indirect reference to restricted material (see Figure 3)......Page 113
Verbal as opposed to visual images (see Figure 4)......Page 115
Notes......Page 117
References......Page 118
Part III. Distant past......Page 120
Introduction......Page 122
The construction of history......Page 123
Methodology......Page 126
The strategies surveyed......Page 129
The strategy of \"claiming victim-hood\"
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The strategy of \"knowledge maintenance\"
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The strategy of positive self-construction......Page 139
Strategic agency......Page 140
Notes......Page 142
References......Page 143
Introduction......Page 146
Theoretical framework......Page 148
Historical survey......Page 151
Setting and content of the TV discussion......Page 154
Strategies in the presentation of different historical views......Page 157
The term Austro-Fascism as a membership categorisation device......Page 158
The German Wehrmacht......Page 164
Turning stories into history: The role of the moderator......Page 174
Conclusion......Page 178
Notes......Page 179
References......Page 180
Introduction......Page 184
Orthopraxy and having a life......Page 186
Two histories......Page 187
Borrowed genres......Page 190
The relocation of resources and functions......Page 193
Conclusion: Orthopraxy, genre and subjectivity......Page 197
References......Page 199
Appendix 1......Page 200
Appendix 2......Page 201
Background......Page 202
History and national identity......Page 205
Conditions of production......Page 207
Textual analysis......Page 209
Selection of texts......Page 210
A transformational model of text selection......Page 211
The language of the texts......Page 213
Conditions of reception......Page 218
Conclusion......Page 221
References......Page 222
Part IV. Yesteryear......Page 224
Introduction. Approaches to history as a discursive practice: The role of evaluation......Page 226
Systems for giving value to the past: A systemic linguistic perspective......Page 231
Judging the past......Page 233
Reconstruals of the past - settlement or invasion? (A judgement analysis)......Page 238
Patterns of judgement in school history narratives: \'Objectivity\' as a rhetorical effect
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The contemporary history classroom - tools for revaluing the past......Page 248
Conclusion: The value of \'value\' tools......Page 250
References......Page 251
Introduction......Page 254
Background to the history controversy in Japan......Page 255
Data and methodology......Page 256
Analysis......Page 257
Participants and processes......Page 258
Primacy of meaning......Page 264
Recapitulation......Page 265
Statistical analysis......Page 266
Attacker and Attack......Page 267
Primacy of meaning......Page 270
Conclusion......Page 272
References......Page 275
Examples from the following textbooks have been quoted in this paper......Page 277
Index......Page 280
The series DISCOURSE APPROACHES TO POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE......Page 284